Braintree and RAF Weatherfield (between) (UK/England), United Kingdom
I was active duty (USAF) at the time, I was driving home (car-pooling) with a fellow worker, his name is Mike Bugno. We were in his VW
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-02-23
- Where
- Braintree and RAF Weatherfield (between) (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-braintree-and-raf-weatherfield-between-uk-england-1978-699822
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Braintree and RAF Weatherfield (between) (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 14 sightings in 1978.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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